Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything.

The sunshine of the mind.

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

Be the change that you want to see

When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.